Regions

Dickey’s Barbecue Bets on Bentonville

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, a Dallas-born chain, is coming to Northwest Arkansas.

Nature Conservancy Gives Year-end Report

At its sixth annual meeting for Northwest Arkansas partners in conservation, held Nov. 6 at the Springdale Country Club, State Director Scott Simon said more than 7,200 acres have been place in conservation management in 2008.

Arkansas Inc. Tanc 3Q Results Revealed

According to a survey of business leaders in Arkansas, during the third quarter 61 percent of companies expected to maintain their current staff levels.

Accountants, Collectors Sought-after Workers

According to research by Robert Half International, a temporary staffing and consulting firm with a location in Fayetteville, salaries for accounting and finance staff are expected to grow 3.4 percent in 2009.

Crying Foul Over Fair Value? Don’t. (Commentary by Rachel Kremer)

The Financial Accounting Standards Board hoped to create additional consistency and comparability in fair value measurements and to expand disclosures about fair value measurements for the users of the financial statements. Did they miss the mark? Or did

Regnat Populus (Editorial)

The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal has consistently opposed the idea of a state lottery for all the usual reasons: It is simply not the proper job of government to promote gambling, and particularly not a form of gambling that amounts to a regressive

Rock Creek Apartments Set for Fort Smith (Real Deals)

Foster Files and Harris Land Development and Construction Management recently purchased a building permit valued at $2.8 million to construct a 56-unit multi-family development in Fort Smith; Mathias Storage Buildings in Springdale recently sold for $1.3

Eminent Domain at Issue In Shale Play Lawsuits

As wells continue to pop up in the Fayetteville Shale Play’s primary region, more landowners will find themselves engaged in this argument between two tenets of society: the right to own land and manage it as wanted and the government’s responsibility to

Stronger Dollar Clobbers International Numbers (Touchpoints by Andrew Jensen)

Wal-Mart International has been the Bentonville retailer’s fastest growing division for years and is projected to top $100 billion in sales for the first time during the 2009 fiscal year that ends Jan. 31.

Problems with ethanol explained

Author contends that using ethanol makes diesel fuel more expensive. Ironic, considering how much diesel is burned by corn farmers.

Women in the Arts event draws women from Fort Smith area

Ed Dell Wortz, of Fort Smith, and Helen Walton formed the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1989. It’s been supporting artistic Arkansas women ever since.

Joy Spicer Solo Art Exhibit

Joy Spicer Internationally Recognized Artist (Solo Art Exhibition) Rock House Coffee 3501 Greenwood Rd. Fort Smith, AR 479-452-2404 BOUNDLESS FREEDOM Through this exhibited body of work, it…

An update on the Regional Intermodal Authority for the Fort Smith/Van Buren area

Ken O’Donnell, director of the Bi-State Metropolitan Planning Organization, says trust and the formation of partnerships between the freight and business communities and the public are essential for this to be a successful endeavor.

Bartlesville looking for a few good Fort Smith area workers

Bartlesville wants you. Especially if you are one of the thousands in the Fort Smith area recently laid off by Whirlpool, Rheem, Riverside, The Times Record or Arkansas Best Corp….

Weekly economic review includes layoffs, home sales decline

The City Wire economic review for the week of Nov. 10 – Nov. 14: • Fort Smith-based Riverside Furniture announced 250 layoffs at its operations in Fort Smith and Russellville….

Regional real estate market not immune from downturn

Regional real estate sales for the first nine months of the year indicate that the area is not completely immune from the national housing downturn. According to the Arkansas Realtors…

Housing permits start strong in November

During the first two weeks of November, the city of Fort Smith issued 233 permits valued at $6.14 million. That is slightly off the October pace of 644 permits valued…

Another study seeks economic change in Arkansas (updated)

Many of the points and issues raised by the task force were part of previous state studies and reports. And that’s not to fault the Task Force. It speaks more to the sometimes slow pace at which change happens in Arkansas.

It’s become a $40 Thanksgiving.

It begs the question, "Is the family worth it?"

New director named for regional business support center

R. Nick Remy is the new director of the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) located at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. Remy, who will begin…